11 Dec, 2020 | High-Value Nutrition, News, Science of Food
Riddet Institute scientists have recently invented a new technology to manufacture a composite ingredient called FlavoPlus™. This ingredient can be incorporated into functional food products to increase their flavonoid content. National Science Challenge HVN Science...
10 Dec, 2020 | High-Value Nutrition, News
High value plant-based resins, and some other Christmas gifts Gold, frankincense, and myrrh – the Christmas presents from the Three Wise Men, the Magi, to the infant Christ. I am not sure how much the new-born infant himself appreciated them, but I’m sure his...
10 Dec, 2020 | High-Value Nutrition, News
The Covid-19 pandemic that has dominated the last 12 months has changed all our lives in many different ways, and we who are engaged in the High-Value Nutrition (HVN) National Science Challenge, Ko Ngā Kai Whai Painga, have faced the same uncertainty, fears and...
9 Dec, 2020 | Events, Infant Health, News
On Wednesday 2 December HVN Science Leadership Team member Professor Clare Wall gave her inaugural lecture at the University of Auckland titled ‘The accidental academic’. Clare shared with the audience her career journey, where she started as a clinical dietician in...
30 Nov, 2020 | Immune Health, Metabolic Health, News
Pamela von Hurst from the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University has been promoted to Professor. Pamela is Co-Director of the Massey Vitamin D Research Centre, which she helped establish in 2010. Her research interests include vitamin D in health...
30 Nov, 2020 | Events, News, Science of Food
The Riddet Institute-led High-Value Nutrition Science of Food programme is hosting a free online seminar to support high-value nutrition export success. Listen to Dr Peter Brown (Consultant IP Synergy), Dr Olivier Gasser (Immunologist, Malaghan Institute) and Michelle...
